The American Civil Liberties Union argued Thursday in a federal appeals court to shut the program down.
Three planes have been flying out of Martin State Airport since May. The arguments in court come as the Baltimore Police Department prepares a report on the spy plane program and whether it's doing anything to reduce crime.
The privately funded aerial surveillance program in Baltimore is in the fifth month of a six-month pilot, and critics continue to try to ground it.
"It's the technological equivalent of having a police officer follow you each and every time they walk out their door," said David Rocah, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Maryland. "It's only because it's being done remotely from a plane that we don't viscerally experience the privacy implication and the privacy impact."
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How is this any different than all of the rioting fools holding their phones in the air?
Haven't the people running these programs ever heard of drones?
Baltimore is systemically racist city that needs to be defunded
Privacy is expected only in private places. Step outside those confines and presence becomes public. Arguments can be made on a case by case basis, but a wholesale trashing of the tool is uncalled for.
@1109 You're an idiot and don't deserve the freedoms and liberty our forefathers bestowed upon you.
How is this any different than patrol cars? Just patrol planes? Anyway, we’re already being spied on by cameras on corners and residential Ring cameras used as evidence of people walking or driving by.
Spy plane and they still can't stop crime
Give it up Baltimore
The ACLU just does not want black crime to be stopped or reported.
This system works in Rio.
They have solved countless murders simply by reviewing the tape forwards and backwards to follow the perpetrators for quick ID.
You might as well get use to it. If the Democrats get their New World Order they are fighting for EVERYONE will be watched. SOCIALISM - 101
Northwest Woodsman: They should arm those aircraft with 2.75 HE rockets and if anything moves or rioting begins, plant a couple of pairs right in the middle of the crowd. Extreme fear of being out on the street will put a quick end to civil unrest issues.
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